Certified Expert in ESG & Impact Investing
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Discover how to turn ESG criteria and Impact Investing into actionable strategies that shape sustainable portfolios. In the Certified Expert in ESG and Impact Investing, you'll gain the tools to integrate nonfinancial objectives seamlessly into mainstream finance and create measurable impact.
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Discover how to turn ESG criteria and Impact Investing into actionable strategies that shape sustainable portfolios. In the Certified Expert in ESG and Impact Investing, you'll gain the tools to integrate nonfinancial objectives seamlessly into mainstream finance and create measurable impact.
Your Benefits
This course gives you a comprehensive foundation in ESG and Impact Investing and empowers you to become a changemaker in sustainable finance:
- Explore ESG and Impact Investing fundamentals, understanding their links to mainstream finance.
- Become familiar with key strategies for ESG quality assurance and learn how to embed them across the investment process.
- Gain hands-on insight into sustainable financial instruments, legal constructs, disclosure standards, and reporting practices.
- Learn to apply regulatory knowledge and navigate issues such as greenwashing to drive meaningful, trusted impact.
- Gain an accredited certification (6 ECTS credits)
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Register by 15 January 2026 and secure the early bird discount. Regular price after this date: EUR 1,900.
DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE
- Early bird discount (by January 15)
- 10% group discount
- 10% alumni discount
Contact us for combinable discounts
Register by 15 January 2026 and secure the early bird discount. Regular price after this date: EUR 1,900.
DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE
- Early bird discount (by January 15)
- 10% group discount
- 10% alumni discount
Contact us for combinable discounts
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
01 March 2026 - 31 August 2026
METHODOLOGY
Our self-paced, asynchronous online courses are built for professionals who want to upskill on their own time, without putting work on hold. Our courses deliver international expertise and hands-on tools you can apply immediately.
- Flexible, study anytime, anywhere
- Practical learning, real-world examples
- Expert support when you need it
- Optional live sessions (also recorded, of course)
Join a global community of professionals who are advancing their careers with flexible, high-quality learning.
CONTENTS
COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction and Overview: What are ESG Criteria and Impact Investing
It familiarises you with major stakeholders, initiatives, and approaches for integrating non-financial issues into the day-to-day activities of investing. Key concepts and themes are introduced, which establish foundations for a learning journey that will be expanded upon over the subsequent units.
Historical and Theoretical Context
This unit helps you understand what is relevant for your context, whilst also making you aware of other requirements you may encounter in adjacent parts of the industry. It contextualises the historical evolution and theoretical development of ESG and Impact Investing to show how they complement each other, and to demystify why some narratives about managing non-financial factors appear to be fragmented and conflicting. Conceptual structures are presented that help you apply theory to praxis via a unified framework.
A Quality Assurance Approach to Managing ESG Issues and Impact
Each pathway represents a different level of methodological intensity. You will be introduced to the techniques and tools that are relevant for each, and learn how to choose the pathways that are most suitable for your needs or circumstances. This unit also clarifies how these strategic pathways align with operational mindsets such as compliance, risk management, as well as proactively managing performance against non-financial goals.
Integrating ESG and Impact Management in the Investment Process
These all follow the same high-level process that aligns with the Deming quality management cycle. This is applied with different levels of intensity and granularity depending on the strategic pathway being followed. You will learn how this process can be deployed across all asset classes, across publicly traded securities and private over-the-counter transactions, and by retail investors as well as institutional investors.
Integration of ESG & Impact Feature into Financial Instruments
You will learn how ESG and impact features are incorporated into financial instruments. This can be achieved either by enhancing traditional instruments with additional requirements and obligations, such as with Green Bonds, or by developing innovative instruments and hybrid models that introduce new contractual and financial arrangements, such as Social Impact Incentives.
Disclosure and Reporting of ESG & Impact
You will learn about the key regulations and legal requirements that are currently in various stages of development, notably by the European Commission. The unit also covers key trends, selected best practices, and challenges to help you navigate the various ratings, labels, certifications, and evaluation methods that are available. The challenges and opportunities in data collection are outlined, which explains why information from different providers of data and ratings is often weakly correlated.
COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction and Overview: What are ESG Criteria and Impact Investing
It familiarises you with major stakeholders, initiatives, and approaches for integrating non-financial issues into the day-to-day activities of investing. Key concepts and themes are introduced, which establish foundations for a learning journey that will be expanded upon over the subsequent units.
Historical and Theoretical Context
This unit helps you understand what is relevant for your context, whilst also making you aware of other requirements you may encounter in adjacent parts of the industry. It contextualises the historical evolution and theoretical development of ESG and Impact Investing to show how they complement each other, and to demystify why some narratives about managing non-financial factors appear to be fragmented and conflicting. Conceptual structures are presented that help you apply theory to praxis via a unified framework.
A Quality Assurance Approach to Managing ESG Issues and Impact
Each pathway represents a different level of methodological intensity. You will be introduced to the techniques and tools that are relevant for each, and learn how to choose the pathways that are most suitable for your needs or circumstances. This unit also clarifies how these strategic pathways align with operational mindsets such as compliance, risk management, as well as proactively managing performance against non-financial goals.
Integrating ESG and Impact Management in the Investment Process
These all follow the same high-level process that aligns with the Deming quality management cycle. This is applied with different levels of intensity and granularity depending on the strategic pathway being followed. You will learn how this process can be deployed across all asset classes, across publicly traded securities and private over-the-counter transactions, and by retail investors as well as institutional investors.
Integration of ESG & Impact Feature into Financial Instruments
You will learn how ESG and impact features are incorporated into financial instruments. This can be achieved either by enhancing traditional instruments with additional requirements and obligations, such as with Green Bonds, or by developing innovative instruments and hybrid models that introduce new contractual and financial arrangements, such as Social Impact Incentives.
Disclosure and Reporting of ESG & Impact
You will learn about the key regulations and legal requirements that are currently in various stages of development, notably by the European Commission. The unit also covers key trends, selected best practices, and challenges to help you navigate the various ratings, labels, certifications, and evaluation methods that are available. The challenges and opportunities in data collection are outlined, which explains why information from different providers of data and ratings is often weakly correlated.
COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction and Overview: What are ESG Criteria and Impact Investing
It familiarises you with major stakeholders, initiatives, and approaches for integrating non-financial issues into the day-to-day activities of investing. Key concepts and themes are introduced, which establish foundations for a learning journey that will be expanded upon over the subsequent units.
Historical and Theoretical Context
This unit helps you understand what is relevant for your context, whilst also making you aware of other requirements you may encounter in adjacent parts of the industry. It contextualises the historical evolution and theoretical development of ESG and Impact Investing to show how they complement each other, and to demystify why some narratives about managing non-financial factors appear to be fragmented and conflicting. Conceptual structures are presented that help you apply theory to praxis via a unified framework.
A Quality Assurance Approach to Managing ESG Issues and Impact
Each pathway represents a different level of methodological intensity. You will be introduced to the techniques and tools that are relevant for each, and learn how to choose the pathways that are most suitable for your needs or circumstances. This unit also clarifies how these strategic pathways align with operational mindsets such as compliance, risk management, as well as proactively managing performance against non-financial goals.
Integrating ESG and Impact Management in the Investment Process
These all follow the same high-level process that aligns with the Deming quality management cycle. This is applied with different levels of intensity and granularity depending on the strategic pathway being followed. You will learn how this process can be deployed across all asset classes, across publicly traded securities and private over-the-counter transactions, and by retail investors as well as institutional investors.
Integration of ESG & Impact Feature into Financial Instruments
You will learn how ESG and impact features are incorporated into financial instruments. This can be achieved either by enhancing traditional instruments with additional requirements and obligations, such as with Green Bonds, or by developing innovative instruments and hybrid models that introduce new contractual and financial arrangements, such as Social Impact Incentives.
Disclosure and Reporting of ESG & Impact
You will learn about the key regulations and legal requirements that are currently in various stages of development, notably by the European Commission. The unit also covers key trends, selected best practices, and challenges to help you navigate the various ratings, labels, certifications, and evaluation methods that are available. The challenges and opportunities in data collection are outlined, which explains why information from different providers of data and ratings is often weakly correlated.
STUDY JOURNEY
Register
Participate
Pass the Exam
Get Certified
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Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance.
Diploma in Green Finance
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Green Finance.
Diploma in Financial Inclusion
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Financial Inclusion.
Diploma in Risk Management
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Risk Management.
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Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance.
Diploma in Green Finance
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Green Finance.
Diploma in Financial Inclusion
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Financial Inclusion.
Diploma in Risk Management
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Risk Management.
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Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance.
Diploma in Green Finance
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Green Finance.
Diploma in Financial Inclusion
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Financial Inclusion.
Diploma in Risk Management
Benefit from an Alumni discount and have the course credited when you continue to the Diploma in Risk Management.
